Quotes about Dependence
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
- Isaiah 36:9
And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:
- Isaiah 37:15
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
- Isaiah 44:15
They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
- Isaiah 46:7
Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
- Isaiah 51:18
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
- Jeremiah 2:27
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Jeremiah 49:11
then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.
- Ezekiel 14:18
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- Amos 7:5
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 4:4
Give us this day our daily bread.
- Matthew 6:11
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- Matthew 8:20